the mcgovern family has lost a beloved father, grandfather great grandfather, uncle cousin and in law. we extend to you our deepest pledge to hold you in our prayers as you move through this season of sorrow. you have embraced and in the lord with remarkable dignity and charity a public season of grief. so thank you again for sharing george with a generation that also grieves with you. on behalf of a profoundly grateful united methodist church who proudly claims george stanley mcgovern as a son and example of our heritage of personal wholeness and social holiness i thank each of you for coming today to celebrate and monitor senator if -- senator mcgovern's life and witness. share the mcgovern family's grief. i thank you for coming to say goodbye to a dear friend, a political colleague, trusted men for -- [no audio] geography and culture of the area formed him as it has many of us, to embrace the common person and tirelessly worked for the common good. george mcgovern was also a prairie profit. he was a home town profit. in the tradition of the judeo-christian profits he called and ins